Okay everyone, this has gone on for way too long. For the past few months, I've been keeping track of all the garbage that Steven's been posting about us, he's been sending us nasty emails and he's been buying up as many domains related to us as possible. I've been holding my tongue and have been trying to ignore all the lies, but this is it.
First of all -- check out the WhoIS Information for all these domains. They belong to Graysons Kennels (Steven Potter). He owns 18 domains in all. These are only the ones I know about pertaining to us. Who knows what other domains he owns. All except for the bettwomack.com redirects back to his website. For those of you who don't know about webdesign, this is a very easy thing to do. (We do the same thing with our website - if you go to MoonValleyKennel.com or AYorkieIsForever.com, it will redirect to MoonValleyYorkies.com)
Click these links for the WhoIS Registrant Info - Public record
BettyWomack.com -
Bettywomack.com - Betty Womack (Betty Womack is my mother)
MoonValleyKennels.com -
Moonvalleykennels.com - Moon Valley Kennels
MoonValleyYorkie.com -
Moonvalleyyorkie.com - Moon Valley Yorkie
Steven and my mom were "friends" for years, and recently had a falling out in November 09. Of course, Steven is a local competitor, and his kennel is about 45 minutes away from us. We have largely chosen to ignore his antics partially because this whole ordeal is extremely childish, and because of his past, we are a little afraid of what he could do. Steven is a convicted felon - he served 5 years of a 12 year sentence in Illinois for armed robbery. (If anyone would a copy of his background check, I'll be more than happy to email it to you.) I would sort of rather leave him alone and let him do what he wants, than any other possible alternative. My family believes he is dangerous.
A lot of Steven says is are also all lies - we have dogs in our kennel from Steven, and Steven has dogs in his kennel from us. Like I said, he and my mom used to be friends and they had a partnership. He is making up new email addresses, and emailing us anonymously, and is making up new YT usernames so he can make malicious posts about us.
If the board moderator would request the server log he would see that these names he's making up all the share the same IP address. (Come on people, 1 post per username, created Feb. 2010? Be smart.)
Case in point -
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/bre...e-opinion.html
This person who posted this saw Steven's booth at the flea market. He lied in his post saying that he screens each 'client' of his and the puppies in the window were his personal pets, and that he left because he felt people viewed his flea market store as bad. Actually, he was selling puppies at the market for 2-3 years left and right, and he left the flea market because he was
kicked out for starting drama with the flea market owner and other puppy sellers at the flea market. (Call or email for yourself and ask -- (423) 337-3532 or
info@sweetwaterfleamarket.net -- ask for the office manager, Angie)
He really did have a nice booth, and it was inside, not outside with the other breeders. But the other things he said were not true.
I just ask that people make their own opinion instead of letting Steven feed you his lines of bull crap. He is going to try everything he can to get under our skin, steal as much business as possible from us and ruin our reputation. Fortunately for us, posting a couple of false comments on YT won't ruin us as much as he wished it would. I don't want to reciprocate the maliciousness that Steven is doing to us. We are bigger than that, and we don't spend every waking hour trying to think of new ways to hurt him. That is what Steven does.